Favourite riffs

[Carnage]

Prong  - Whose Fist is it Anyway

How that hasn't been used as a WWF wrestler's walk on music, I'll never know. Maybe it has.

[Vadge]

Far too many to think about but I suppose here is a good place to declare that the opening riff to Desolate Shrine's Unmask The Face Of False is probably the heaviest riff of all time 


https://darkdescentrecords.bandcamp.com/track/unmask-the-face-of-false

[Carnage]

Speaking of Today Is The Day, the opening/main riff to this is crushing:

https://youtu.be/b6c5JTwRsuM

[Pentagrimes]

Melvins  - Honey Bucket 

Absolutely agreed.,every riff in that song is monstrous. And "Boris".

[Bogmetaller]

Prong  - Whose Fist is it Anyway

How that hasn't been used as a WWF wrestler's walk on music, I'll never know. Maybe it has.

It hasn't but snap your fingers snap your neck has 

[Circlepit]

Crowbar - The Lasting Dose. Every time I listen to that I feel like Kirk Windstein is sitting on my face. The bit when the verse starts. Sweet Jesus it's so heavy. If treacle had a sound it would be that.

[Ducky]

Seems a good thread to muse over it - Nirvana have more good riffs than I've had hot dinners.

Smells Like... made me want to explore guitar music more, but when I first got into metal, I became "too cool" to listen to Nirvana.

A few years and a dose of cop-on later, I got into them again and fuck me, there's so many belters in their small back catalogue; especially on Bleach and Incesticide.

And honestly, Milk It is one of the nastiest sounds I've ever had come out of my speakers.

[Ducky]

Seeing as there's a thread about new Today is the Day material, it reminded me of the riffs from Mayari.

[leatherface]

Some more riffffs that come to mind today:

Faith no More: Surprise! You're Dead
Prong: Another Worldly Device (quite a few have mentioned Prong, hadn't mentioned them before, my bad)
Motorhead: Mean Machine
Bad Brains: Big Takeover
Cathedral: Vampire Sun
Cathedral: Hopkins
S.O.D.: March of the SOD
Ministry: Psalm 69 (verse riff)
Sepultura: Troops of Doom (re-recording- on 'Schizophrenia')
Carcass: Butcher's Apron (riff at 0.43)
Running Wild: Raw Ride
Annihilator: Alice in Hell
Ghoul: Ghetto Blasters (riff at 1.08)
Soundgarden: Rusty Cage (an intriguing sounding one, not the usual powerchord stuff but still very heavy)
White Zombie: Creature of the wheel (a deep cut from the now defunct WZ, riff is monstrous)

[Blitzer666]

Seems a good thread to muse over it - Nirvana have more good riffs than I've had hot dinners.

Smells Like... made me want to explore guitar music more, but when I first got into metal, I became "too cool" to listen to Nirvana.

A few years and a dose of cop-on later, I got into them again and fuck me, there's so many belters in their small back catalogue; especially on Bleach and Incesticide.

And honestly, Milk It is one of the nastiest sounds I've ever had come out of my speakers.

[Ducky]

What's so lol-worthy?

[Pentagrimes]

Exactly.  Nirvana had plenty riffs.

[Melmoth]

Some great riffs on Bleach by Nirvana

[ShinRa]

Seems a good thread to muse over it - Nirvana have more good riffs than I've had hot dinners.

Smells Like... made me want to explore guitar music more, but when I first got into metal, I became "too cool" to listen to Nirvana.

A few years and a dose of cop-on later, I got into them again and fuck me, there's so many belters in their small back catalogue; especially on Bleach and Incesticide.

And honestly, Milk It is one of the nastiest sounds I've ever had come out of my speakers.

Nirvana had dozens of amazing riffs alright. Though check out where they nicked the Milk It riff from:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0lue7MTAvA

[Wiseblood]

Pantera - Live Through Me (Hells Wrath) is a cracker. As is 5 Minutes Alone and the slow riff of Domination. Pantera had a wealth of great riffs though.

Sepultura - Dead Embryonic Cells

And while I'm loathe to mention that geebag Robb Flynn, the main riff to Old is top drawer too.